LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininefirst declension

tēgula

tēgula f (genitive tēgulae)
Classical[ˈteː.ɡʊ.ɫa]Ecclesiastical[ˈtɛː.ɡu.la]
Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. in plurala large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex
    Coordinate term: imbrex
    At ita me di deaeque omnis ament, nisi mihi supplicium virgeum de te datur longum diutinumque, a mane ad vesperum, quod meas confregisti imbricis et tegulas,[…]c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 2.6.21–24
  2. a tile used to bake food upon it (baking tile, frying pan)
    Glires: isicio porcino, item pulpis ex omni membro glirium trito, cum pipere, nucleis, lasere, liquamine farcies glires, et sutos in tegula positos mittes in furnum aut farsos in clibano coques.Dormice: Fill the dormice with minced meat of pork and all parts of the dormice, ground pepper, pinenuts, laser, fish-sauce, and put them sewn together and laid upon a tile-pan into the oven, or cook them stuffed in the clibanus.230 CE, De re culinaria 8

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

quā tēctum tegitur.
tegula -ae f — in Mille Verba, Domus et Familia

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativetēgulatēgulae
genitivetēgulaetēgulārum
dativetēgulaetēgulīs
accusativetēgulamtēgulās
ablativetēgulātēgulīs
vocativetēgulatēgulae

Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.

tēgula ae, f
a tile, roof-tile: tegulam in Italiā nullam relicturus, not a tile: prohibebat imbrem Tegula, O.: quem tegula sola tuetur A pluviā, Iu. — Esp., plur, a tiling, tiled roof: decidere de tegulis, T.: per tegulas demitti: per scalas pervenisse in tegulas, L.

Origins

From Proto-Italic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”). By surface analysis, tegō (“to cover”) + -ula. For the meaning development compare German Kachel. Though the sense “frying-pan” has been said to be derived from Ancient Greek τάγηνον (tágēnon), τήγανον (tḗganon), this is formally difficult; the distinction between it and “rooftile” may thus be seen as unfounded. The long vowel is difficult to explain, but according to some authors it is an artifact of early simplification of the cluster *gdʰ in *teg-dʰlom (see -bulum for the suffix); compare rēgula. Contrast the later formation tegulum, with a short vowel.

Elsewhere
  • Italiantegghiafrom Vulgar Latin tegla
  • Italiantegliafrom Vulgar Latin tegla
  • Portuguesetelhafrom Vulgar Latin tegla
  • Spanishtejafrom Vulgar Latin tegla
  • Italiantiellafrom Vulgar Latin *tegella
  • Portuguesetigelafrom Vulgar Latin *tegella
  • Italiantegola
  • Portuguesetarrofrom Andalusian Arabic تاقرة
  • Spanishtarrofrom Andalusian Arabic تاقرة
  • Portuguesetégula
Gallo-Romance
  • Catalanteula
  • Occitanteule
  • Franco-Provençaltiola
  • Old Frenchtiule
North-Italian
  • Piedmontesetiola
  • Piedmontesetìvola

In English words that came into English from tēgula

  • tiletēgula
  • tegulatēgula
  • tuilletēgula
  • tegulartēgulāris

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries

AntiquitiesTegulaTegula (κέραμος, κεραμίς), a tile, made of baked clay, yellow or red. Under the name of tegulae are included (1) wall-tiles = testae or lateres cocti,…

Quick answers

What does tēgula mean in Latin?
tēgula, a noun, means “a large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex; a tile used to bake food upon it (baking tile, frying pan)”.
What is the genitive of tēgula?
The genitive singular is tēgulae. tēgula is feminine, first declension.
How do you pronounce tēgula?
In classical Latin, [ˈteː.ɡʊ.ɫa]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈtɛː.ɡu.la].
Which English words come from tēgula?
English words that go back to Latin tēgula include tile, tegula, tuille and tegular.